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February 24, 2006
Sudan: Muslim Elders' Council Makes Man Marry Goat
The BBC is usually too politically correct to deal with Muslim issues objectively. Once again they have tactfully made the description of the following case, which involves a Muslim council of elders, without using the word "Muslim".
Anyway, today they report the case of a man from Upper Nile State in Southern Sudan, who was caught having sex with a goat. The incident and its consequences were reported in the Juba Post, the only independent newspaper in Sudan, which is printed in the southern city of Juba and has an office in Khartoum. The paper is staffed by journalists who refuse to work for federal authority-controlled propaganda sheets, and has just started its second year of publication.
The goat belonged to one Mr Alifi, who on 13 February heard a noise at midnight, and went outside. There he found his animal being mounted by a Mr Tombe. When asked what he was up to, he said Tombe "fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up."
Alifi was advised by elders what he should do, and they told him not to involve the police. So he allowed the council of elders to decide Tombe's fate.
As Tombe was having "marital relations" with the poor goat, he was ordered to pay a dowry of 15,000 dinars, equivalent to $50 to the goat's former owner.
"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Alifi told the paper.
There is no news on whether there was a honeymoon for the couple, or if Mr Tombe intends in the future to add new "wives" to his unusual family set-up.
One hopes the poor creature is not suffering from goat-pox virus, which occasionally causes outbreaks among flocks in Sudan, particularly in the South.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 24, 2006 3:53 PM
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